MANILA (AFP) – Eighteen Vietnamese crew members of a cargo ship have been detained after it ploughed into a coral reef in the central Philippines, the coastguard said Tuesday. The Unicorn Logger, a Panama-flagged freighter, ran aground at a protected marine sanctuary off the tiny island of Sambawan on Friday, coastguard spokesman Armand Balilo…
(Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping [pictured above] told his visiting Vietnamese counterpart of Wednesday that maintaining peace and stability in the contested South China Sea was vital for both countries, who should remember their traditional friendship. Beijing’s assertion of sovereignty over a vast stretch of the South China Sea has set it directly…
Pirates in speedboats attacked an oil supply vessel and kidnapped four Indian and Polish crew members in increasingly dangerous waters off Nigeria’s coast last week, two security sources said on Wednesday. The gunmen launched their assault on the Singapore-flagged tugboat MDPL Continental One around 30 nautical miles from land on June 13, the security…
AG (ETR:HMU) said Monday it had sold its port operations in Indonesia for an undisclosed sum. Confidentiality has been agreed on the details of the sale contract, the company said. The sale of the port business and the respective services contract in Indonesia marked the completion of the company’s business repositioning. Now, HMS Bergbau…